Drivers in France are protesting rising fuel taxes by blocking roads across the country.

At a blockade on a road in the southeastern department of Savoie, a driver panicked when protesters surrounded her vehicle and she accelerated, hitting and killing a woman demonstrator, the French Interior Minister Christophe Castanersaid in televised comments. In Troyes, southeast of Paris, about 100 people invaded the prefecture, the local representation of the state, damaging the inside, Interior Ministry officials said.

These include more financial incentives to exchange old cars for cleaner ones as well as the number of French entitled to "energy cheques".

"I'm very disappointed. I really hope he's going to listen to us but I don't have a lot of hope for that".

Anger over the high fuel prices has resulted in Macron's popularity taking a hit over the recent months - from 39 percent in July to 21 percent in October.

"We've had enough of it".

The backlash is the latest confrontation between Mr Macron and voters, mostly based in the countryside and provincial towns and cities, who view the former investment banker as the representative of a remote urban elite.

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